Using Mixed Methods to Measure the Perception of Community Capacity in an Academic-Community Partnership for a Walking Intervention

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 788-796

  Anderson Lewis, Charkarra ^a   Cuy Castellanos, Diana ^a   Byrd, Arnecca ^a   Zynda, Karen ^a   Sample, Alicia ^a   Reed, Vickie Blakely ^a   Beard, Mary ^a   Minor, Latessa ^a   Yadrick, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

college community partnerships; community based participatory research; evaluation design; health research; program planning and evaluation; qualitative evaluation; quantitative evaluation; university college health

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; WALKING;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MISSISSIPPI; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNIVERSITIES; WALKING;

EID: 84868029258     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839911404230     Document Type: Article

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